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Akai Katana Shin cover art

Akai Katana Shin

CITY CONNECTION · 2022-12-14

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Action

Modes: Single player, Co-operative

Releases: Dec 15, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 28, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Dec 15, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Jun 28, 2023 (Xbox One)

Be guided anew into an epic tale set in the Taisho era with three titles from Cave's Akai Katana series that has captured the hearts of passionate shoot 'em up fans. New features include an online leaderboard and new musical arrangements.

Akai Katana Shin is a 2022 Action game priced at $29.99, with an owner estimate of 0 .. 20,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (96% of 108 reviews).

96%
positive of 108 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)
Akai Katana is a horizontally scrolling shooter bullet hell developed by Cave and released in Japan on August 20, 2010 for arcades. A port to the Xbox 360 with additional game modes, Akai Katana Shin, followed on May 26, 2011. Rising Star Games published the console release in North America and Europe on May 15, 2012 simply as Akai Katana.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 19 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 138% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 68% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.2k–4.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 108 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$29.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $17.99 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 4 of 9 observed days · $12.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
313120222026Week of 2022-12-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$29.99$17.992022-12-142026-08-272022-12-14 — best price $29.992023-03-16 — best price $23.992023-03-23 — best price $29.992023-06-29 — best price $23.992023-07-13 — best price $29.992023-09-21 — best price $23.992023-09-25 — best price $29.992023-12-18 — best price $20.992024-01-04 — best price $29.992024-03-14 — best price $26.992024-03-21 — best price $29.992024-04-25 — best price $23.992024-05-06 — best price $29.992024-06-27 — best price $23.992024-07-11 — best price $29.992024-09-18 — best price $23.992024-09-30 — best price $29.992024-12-19 — best price $23.992025-01-02 — best price $29.992025-05-01 — best price $20.992025-05-08 — best price $29.992025-06-26 — best price $20.992025-07-10 — best price $29.992025-09-17 — best price $20.992025-09-29 — best price $29.992025-12-18 — best price $19.492026-01-05 — best price $29.992026-03-19 — best price $19.492026-03-26 — best price $29.992026-06-25 — best price $17.992026-07-09 — best price $29.992026-08-27 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1.0k372026-06-01 — 67 pageviews2026-06-04 — 69 pageviews2026-06-07 — 37 pageviews2026-06-10 — 59 pageviews2026-06-13 — 57 pageviews2026-06-16 — 103 pageviews2026-06-19 — 86 pageviews2026-06-22 — 168 pageviews2026-06-25 — 61 pageviews2026-06-28 — 94 pageviews2026-07-01 — 913 pageviews2026-07-04 — 62 pageviews2026-07-07 — 69 pageviews2026-07-10 — 41 pageviews2026-07-13 — 71 pageviews2026-07-16 — 43 pageviews2026-07-19 — 65 pageviews2026-07-22 — 73 pageviews2026-07-25 — 265 pageviews2026-07-28 — 41 pageviews2026-07-31 — 40 pageviews2026-08-03 — 57 pageviews2026-08-06 — 164 pageviews2026-08-09 — 70 pageviews2026-08-12 — 83 pageviews2026-08-15 — 56 pageviews2026-08-18 — 65 pageviews2026-08-21 — 61 pageviews2026-08-24 — 69 pageviews2026-08-27 — 74 pageviews2026-08-29 — 74 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

35
achievements tracked
93%
earned "Hiiragi of the Celestial Stems"
22%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, Spanish - Spain, Traditional Chinese, Japanese

Player tags

2DDramaRetroActionArcadeShooterMilitaryStory RichBullet HellMultiplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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